We are pleased to announce the launching of our brand new website SENEGAMBIA DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE ORGANIZATION (SENDGO). After four months of hard work and dedication and achieving a very successful mission on a EUROPEAN TOUR including a very fruitful meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in LONDON, on September 7th, 2015. We are delighted to officially announce the launching of this impressive website on September 17, 2015. The new site launch is available and the URL is www.Senegambiademocracy.com Our goal with this new website is to provide our visitors an easier way to learn about SENEGAMBIADEMOCRACY.ORG,…
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Picture source: Google images Patriotism has been defined and interpreted differently but one thing is certain, the true meaning remains the same. The meaning that really attracts and resonates with me is the one given by Teddy Roosevelt, who defined patriotism as “standing by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public office.” A lot of philosophers found this to be interesting as Roosevelt was dubbed a militarist and a warmonger. Of all the people that would advocate for true patriotism, critics…
By Sanna Camara The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that interest on Gambia’s debt burden has consumed a rising share of government resources in recent years, reaching over 22 percent of government revenues in 2012. “Most of this was paid on domestic debts,” the Funs stated, adding that large fiscal deficits – financed mostly by domestic borrowing – have added to the government’s heavy debt burden. In a media dispatch issued over the weekend, the executive board of the IMF said they came on an ‘Article IV Consultation in The Gambia’, which they held on the 11th September.…
Just past 10 p.m. one night in November 2012, Bakary was pushed into a cell deep inside the headquarters of Gambia’s dreaded National Intelligence Agency (NIA). The cell was so notorious it had its own name: bambadinka – “the crocodile hole.” There was almost no air in the tiny, mosquito-infested black space, and six thick padlocks made escape impossible. Bambadinka was the very worst cell in the entire NIA complex – a fact which, as a senior intelligence official himself, Bakary knew only too well. “It was at this point that I started to think I might die,” he told Human Rights…
IS THIS REPORT ENOUGH TO INDICT THE GAMBIAN LEADER BEFORE THE ICC? In an unprecedented and most elaborate report so far on the tiny West African State of the Gambia, Human Rights Watch has issued a comprehensive report on the extensive and most gruesome human rights violations by the Gambia government under the stewardship of one of Africa’s most ruthless dictators in modern times. The report accounts for all known abuses, disappearances, tortures, incarcerations and killings of citizens ordered by President Jammeh and carried out by his soldiers. The report effectively indict the President and has made a strong…
By: Ousainou Mbenga The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held its 47th ordinary session in Accra, Ghana on May 19, 2015 as the region is roiling in crises such as the most recent rebellions in Burkina Faso and Burundi. In fact, the entire continent is entangled in the contradictions of its “neocolonial states” with escalating uncertainty for social justice and peaceful existence. This critical period in Africa, marvels Kwame Nkrumah’s prophetic words: “neocolonialism, the last stage of imperialism”. Nkrumah was right and the rest of them undoubtedly wrong. Even the great Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, at a conference…
Cameroon: Hundreds slaughtered by Boko Haram and abused by security forces · War crimes: Boko Haram shoots, burns and slits throats of hundreds of people · Authorities detain more than 1,000 people – dozens die in inhumane conditions · More than 130 men and boys disappeared at hands of security forces · New satellite images show destruction of civilian property by security forces Boko Haram has slaughtered nearly 400 civilians in northern Cameroon, while a heavyhanded response by security forces and inhumane prison conditions have led to dozens more deaths, Amnesty International said in a report launched today. Based on three…
By Sanna Camara in Dakar A final communique that came out of the strategic meeting of the West Africa Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) over the weekend in Dakar has called for “immediate actions to be carried out” in Togo and Gambia as a way of advancing the term limit agenda. The coalition of civil society groups has asked its Thematic Working Group on the issue of Democratic Governance to carry on the outcomes of their meeting “by conducting more impactful activities in the target countries, Togo and Gambia, and stimulate debates on…
BBC – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has read out the wrong speech at the opening of parliament. He gave the same one during his state-of-the-nation address on 25 August, when he was heckled by opposition MPs. His spokesman told the state-run Herald paper the error was because of a mix-up in the president’s secretarial office. The BBC’s Brian Hungwe in Harare says tensions were high ahead of the speech and the state broadcaster cancelled its live feed fearing further disruptions. At least six MPs from the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) received a text message from a sender called…
By Mathew K Jallow It signifies critical conceptual progress, and a clear departure from a pre-colonial mindset replete with undeniable ancestral ruthlessness; the vanquishing of tribal neighbors who spoke different dialects, immersed in different cultures, and believed in different gods. But, it also speaks to the denial of contemporary Gambian reality, where Yahya Jammeh has continued to willfully arch painfully backwards into the dark depths of history, in order to dust off the old, forgotten shelves of our memories to resurrect historical memories that most Gambians would rather put to bed for good. The history of the tribal subjugation…